Transit(n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.
Transit(n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
Transit(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
Transit(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
Transit(n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
Transit(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
Transit(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
Transition(n.) Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
Transition(n.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
Transition(n.) A passing from one subject to another.
Transition(n.) Change from one form to another.
Transitional(a.) Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Transitive(a.) Having the power of making a transit, or passage.
Transitive(a.) Effected by transference of signification.
Transitive(a.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book.

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